April 2012

March 2012

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Intel Xeon E3 CPUs are now available to choose for your builds. Figuring out which desktop motherboards are compatible with different Xeon E3 CPUs can be hit-or-miss (not to mention time consuming), so I've also included full compatibility checking to assist with this.

Anyways i like to post my 2 cents, as of now i really dislike intels route of shoving its iGPU **** into every CPU out there. Like there is no way a 77W or how many ##W CPU is going to overtake a 200W+ dedicated vidoe card EVER.

and if i where to buy one of these iGPU CPU and get a vid card, the vid card pretty much renders a large real estate on the CPU useless that could of been used for SOMETHING else like i dunno more cores bigger cache, more transistors...but NOPE

Another thing is why dont you get one of those SB-E cpu....lol just no they cost way to dam much.

Sure i somewhat understand why they did it but putting it into every line doesnt make sense somewhat, things are getting slimmer and slimmer and room is a limited commodity with how the industry is going...handheld devices

But then i started to dig a little more...and found that the Xeon could be my alternative. Same speed as a i7 but has prices of a i5...but only drawback is the xeons are locked.

For laptops they don't even have the same CPUs, and for people who don't need dedicated graphics, it'll probably save them money too, buy the same exact processor, with no iGPU, and a cheap graphics card, saves money, and gives you better performance. Alternatively, they could just have CPUs with and without iGPUs.